What kind of voice/accents do you hear in where you live?

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I hate to say this but, I hear alot of foreigners these days. Does anyone speak English anymore?

Originally posted by JennyLee22
I hate to say this but, I hear alot of foreigners these days. Does anyone speak English anymore?

same...my neighborhood is full of chinese people and other people who dont speak english! it annoys me... but in brooklyn we all have i uh guess a 'rough' accent...? LoL

Originally posted by Division_Fan_Lisa


same...my neighborhood is full of chinese people and other people who dont speak english! it annoys me... but in brooklyn we all have i uh guess a 'rough' accent...? LoL I live near the border of Chinatown and Little Italy, LOL.

Anyway, as you go to 14 street and up, you can really here that NY accent, lol.

umm i dont really have one, sometimes i have a boston one, or ny but nothing realllllllly

Well, I just moved from Chicago to Western Colorado (Big change!), a lot of people say I have a Chicagoan accent. I guess it's true because I think everyone here has a Cowboy accent, so I guess it evens out! :)

Well I wasn't born in England but I had grown up with an English twinge in my voice, thankfully I've lost it because people made fun of me for it, so now I just talk like a regular Yankee.

Sometimes after I get back from New York, I'll start tawlkin' like a New Yorka.., sorta like I'm doin' right now...

And when I get back from Bwoston, I'll always lose my "r"... as in "Can I have some watah?"

But, I'm basically a regular Yankee

Believe it or not, yes we midwesterners do have an accent. We get all nasaly and maaaake ouuur Aaaaas go oaan and oaan.

Also, we're right next to the Canadian border, and some of my friends have the thickest Canadian accent - something like a cross between California and English. "I'm going oot to the drugstoor, where I'm gonna 'ave a beer'. Dat's wut I'm takin' aboot."

Yes, they DO say "aboot".

I can tease them if I want to, my best friend's Canadian - we laugh at each others' accents all the time. :crazy: :wave:

I talk Bawston. I pahk my cah, go into the bah, ouhdah a beah, get tuhned down because I'm unduh-age, so I ouhdah some watah. Then, I get into my cah, get on the highway, and go 80 miles peh houah.

:happyface :happyface :happyface :lol: :lol: :lol: :talk: :talk: :talk:

Originally posted by WingsFan
I talk Bawston. I pahk my cah, go into the bah, ouhdah a beah, get tuhned down because I'm unduh-age, so I ouhdah some watah. Then, I get into my cah, get on the highway, and go 80 miles peh houah.

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Originally posted by EricMatthews
Well, I just moved from Chicago to Western Colorado (Big change!), a lot of people say I have a Chicagoan accent. I guess it's true because I think everyone here has a Cowboy accent, so I guess it evens out! :)


Yes, there is definitely a Chicago accent! It sounds a lot like a Wisconsin accent! It is subtle but there! And yes people in Colorado have a twang. I have relatives in both locations and we rib them about their accents!:lol:

Originally posted by NEWHART FAN



Yes, there is definitely a Chicago accent! It sounds a lot like a Wisconsin accent! It is subtle but there! And yes people in Colorado have a twang. I have relatives in both locations and we rib them about their accents!:lol: Did you know that the picture you've attached has shot me a total of 6 times or so without me knowing?

;)

Originally posted by WingsFan
I talk Bawston. I pahk my cah, go into the bah, ouhdah a beah, get tuhned down because I'm unduh-age, so I ouhdah some watah. Then, I get into my cah, get on the highway, and go 80 miles peh houah.

:happyface :happyface :happyface :lol: :lol: :lol: :talk: :talk: :talk:

HAHA! Same here as far as the accent goes.... ;) Not that much though!

Originally posted by Jo's the bomb
Did you know that the picture you've attached has shot me a total of 6 times or so without me knowing?


:lol: I think he got me too

My accent is NOTHING! HA! When I go down the street in Queens I hear them talkin, and I copy it. Go into Brooklyn, then end up doing the same...every borrough is different.

Try Staten Island sometime! WHOOO DOGGY! lol

Actually, when I was younger, I had an Australian/Canadian accent and had to go to a speach therapist to get rid of it. And yesh I said "aboat". It's more "aboat" than "aboot" where my relatives come from. Instead of saying "I" it was "oy"...ugh, it was odd. Now if I slip I laugh...but I'm the only one who notices cuz I can do so many accents now that I'm older!

**moo...mooing is not an accent!**

The main accent down here is a Mexican accent. I guess that is because I am so close to the Mexican border.

As for me, I really don't have an accent (ask Karli, she said I do not sound like I'm from Texas :) )

I can turn my accent on or off whenever I want to. I've learned to control it :) That comes from living all over the place.


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Originally posted by Ags2000
As for me, I really don't have an accent (ask Karli, she said I do not sound like I'm from Texas :) )

Nope. She doesn't :) She actually sounds like a Yankee... [am I going to get clobbered for saying that? :D]

But, on the other hand, I have heard her accent. Can you say Julia Sugarbaker?!?

Originally posted by Lisa Whelchel Forever


Nope. She doesn't :) She actually sounds like a Yankee... [am I going to get clobbered for saying that? :D]

But, on the other hand, I have heard her accent. Can you say Julia Sugarbaker?!?

A Yankee????????? LOL :rotflmao: LOL

Julia Sugerbaker????? LOL :rotflmao: LOL

I must say that I fell out of my chair laughing when I read that Karli :cool: And yes you will Karli :D


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Originally posted by Ags2000
As for me, I really don't have an accent (ask Karli, she said I do not sound like I'm from Texas :) )

I can turn my accent on or off whenever I want to. I've learned to control it :) That comes from living all over the place.

I have 2 friends from Texas and neither of them have a Texan accent. What is with you travellers? I bet your parents weren't born and raised in Texas either, huh?

ah well *shrugs*

**moo, who likes to mimic accents at the drop of a hat**

Nearly everyone round here is a Scot so they all have west of Scotland accents. When I was at school there were a couple of English people but not a lot. There was one girl from Liverpool and we all used to take the p#ss out of her accent all the time! :lol: There was another girl from Newcastle but noone dared laugh at her! :eek: :lol:
I've been told that I have quite a strong accent but I don't notice it myself. I don't actually like the west of Scotland accent - I don't find it attractive at all!

Originally posted by Lisa Whelchel Forever


Nope. She doesn't :) She actually sounds like a Yankee... [am I going to get clobbered for saying that? :D]

But, on the other hand, I have heard her accent. Can you say Julia Sugarbaker?!? LOL. Maybe Dannie can/can't. But I definitly can't! lol.

:D

Originally posted by moofomoo


I have 2 friends from Texas and neither of them have a Texan accent. What is with you travellers? I bet your parents weren't born and raised in Texas either, huh?

ah well *shrugs*

**moo, who likes to mimic accents at the drop of a hat**


Actually, both my parents were born and raised in Texas. Then when dad joined the Navy, we moved all over the place. :)


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Originally posted by Ags2000
I must say that I fell out of my chair laughing when I read that Karli :cool: And yes you will Karli :D

No seriously, you sound like a Yankee

*runs fer her dear life*

And you fell off your chair laughing, huh? LOL Well it's true. Actually, now that I'm watching my old tapes of DW, your not Julia. Julia sounds like a Yankee.

Your Charlene! :p

I don't have an accent, I just speak normally I guess. I don't think anyone hear does other than the people who speak a different lanuage.

Originally posted by Lisa Whelchel Forever


No seriously, you sound like a Yankee

*runs fer her dear life*

Come back here!!! :bash: :smash: :boxing:


And you fell off your chair laughing, huh? LOL Well it's true. Actually, now that I'm watching my old tapes of DW, your not Julia. Julia sounds like a Yankee.

Your Charlene! :p


LOL :rotflmao: LOL



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Originally posted by Ags2000
Come back here!!!

:lol: *dances out of Dannielle's reach*

Nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah :p

*catches up with Karli and bangs her over the head with a frying pan*


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I personally have no accent, but I live south of Minnesooota and north of Missouri (where yes, there are plenty of southern accents). Sometimes I catch myself saying y'all or sounding kinda southern, but not really.

Originally posted by Lisa Whelchel Forever


:lol: I think he got me too

Sorry Karli, didn't mean to scare ya!:eek: :lol:

Originally posted by Ags2000
*catches up with Karli and bangs her over the head with a frying pan*


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:eek: OWWIE! LOL!

Like everyone else around here I have a Southern accent.I don't really notice it untill I go to like Florida where they don't have Southern accents when we went to Disney World no one could understand me.

Originally posted by ILuvJoandBlair
I don't have an accent, I just speak normally I guess. I don't think anyone hear does other than the people who speak a different lanuage.

Funny! Being from Michigan I don't have an accent either!
:lol:

Originally posted by Ags2000
*catches up with Karli and bangs her over the head with a frying pan*

EEK!!!

*runs up behind D and bashes her over the head with a..ah...um... bashes her over the head with a baseball bat!*

Originally posted by Lisa Whelchel Forever


EEK!!!

*runs up behind D and bashes her over the head with a..ah...um... bashes her over the head with a baseball bat!*

EWWWWWWW BLOODY!

I think im startin to get a ny accent

Originally posted by Lisa Whelchel Forever


No seriously, you sound like a Yankee

*runs fer her dear life*

And you fell off your chair laughing, huh? LOL Well it's true. Actually, now that I'm watching my old tapes of DW, your not Julia. Julia sounds like a Yankee.

Your Charlene! :p How does a Yankee accent sound like?

Originally posted by Lisa Whelchel Forever


EEK!!!

*runs up behind D and bashes her over the head with a..ah...um... bashes her over the head with a baseball bat!*

This board is getting violent!!!
:eek: :boxing: :smash: :bash: :seeya:

3 of 4 of my teachers have come from the south (Arkansas, etc.) and listening to them kind of gets me talking like that.

Ignore this. Double post.


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Originally posted by Lisa Whelchel Forever


EEK!!!

*runs up behind D and bashes her over the head with a..ah...um... bashes her over the head with a baseball bat!*

(What Karli doesn't know, is that us Texan's heads are SO full of hot air, that a baseball bat does nothing to us)

*evil laughter*

Hey Karli, I have a present for ya look below. :grineyes:

I talk...normal. LOL My cousins in Wisconsin tell me I talk funny, but, in reality, they are the ones who talk funny. :D They say "bag" as if it were "bayg." Argh. It is soooo annoying! They also say "root" as if it were "rut." Grrr. Okay. LOL I've heard that the correct way to pronounce words is usually how national newscasters pronounce them. Since I speak kind of like the newscasters do, I think it's the right way. LOL :lol:

I have no accent but lately I have been experimenting w/ a Suzanne/ Mary Jo accent... is fun :D Karli, you go "Honest to gawd" LOL and britt and jamie- we're talking charlene here :lol:

Originally posted by Ags2000


(What Karli doesn't know, is that us Texan's heads are SO full of hot air, that a baseball bat does nothing to us)

*evil laughter*

Hey Karli, I have a present for ya look below. :grineyes:

GEEZUS! That pic is scary.... Damnit I'm like scared of clowns so that helps me out alot! LOL!

-sighs- Dannielle....Dannielle...my friend...Dannielle... your getting to be like Marlene. I saw that last night and nearly fainted. That's why I did not respond to this post. Because I needed to calm down. So Charlene, no more scary pictures!!

***DISCLAIMER***

Obviously, anyone here can post whatever pictures you want. Go ahead. Post evil clown pictures if you must. But if you direct the pictures towards me, I shall be forced to hitchhike to your state, hunt you down, slash your tires, break into your house, and put the curse of the Bambino on you.

Have a splendid day.

Originally posted by Lisa Whelchel Forever
-sighs- Dannielle....Dannielle...my friend...Dannielle... your getting to be like Marlene. I saw that last night and nearly fainted. That's why I did not respond to this post. Because I needed to calm down. So Charlene, no more scary pictures!!

***DISCLAIMER***

Obviously, anyone here can post whatever pictures you want. Go ahead. Post evil clown pictures if you must. But if you direct the pictures towards me, I shall be forced to hitchhike to your state, hunt you down, slash your tires, break into your house, and put the curse of the Bambino on you.

Have a splendid day.


LOL :rotflmao: LOL


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Originally posted by GGsGold
3 of 4 of my teachers have come from the south (Arkansas, etc.) and listening to them kind of gets me talking like that.

All of my teachers except my band and Spanish teachers have some sort of accent. I don't notice a NY accent or whatever in them, though, I'm just used to it.

also...
They also say "root" as if it were "rut." Grrr.
LOL! My dad says root like that. Also he says CREEK like CRICK, as in your neck.

Originally posted by Love The Facts Of Life
Like everyone else around here I have a Southern accent.I don't really notice it untill I go to like Florida where they don't have Southern accents when we went to Disney World no one could understand me.

Actually, in North Florida, a large number of people speak with
a type of southern dialect that resembles that heard in the
border areas of South Alabama and South Georgia.

Accents are kind of rare here in northern Missouri.

Well, most people have southern accents. However, everyone on Mummy's side of the family sounds English because that's where my Mom was born.

Originally posted by Meg07945

LOL! My dad says root like that. Also he says CREEK like CRICK, as in your neck.

LOL My cousins say that too! They say "roof" funny too. Argh. It's so annoying! :lol:

Originally posted by DJM77
Accents are kind of rare here in northern Missouri.

I've noticed somewhat of a barrier at Interstate 70. People north of that talk like we do in Iowa, south the southern accent starts.

Here in Kentucly everyone here talks like hicks. But I don't talk like a hick.

that is supposed to be Kentucky.

I have a Southern accent. Of course it doesn't really stand out until I go to Florida or up North. It also stands out when people on IM don't understand what I'm saying. Ok, so I guess I can try to give you an idea of how true Southerners speak:

Instead of think I say reckon.

Instead of about I say fixxen.

Instead of going in the car to school, I go on the car.

Instead of being taught, we're learned.

Instead of aren't any, it's ain't.

Instead of people, it's folks.

Instead of hey, it's howdy ma'am.


There are a lot more. I'm constantly made fun of by my cousins, who live in Florida, because of my accent. Of course, they sound funny to me:lol:

I kinda have a minnesota accent, I speak in a southern accent alot but I don't really even have one

In Northern California, we have no distinguisable accent to speak of. California in general, and I'm basing this on surburban areas, does, however, has a different dialect.
We DO say "like" a lot. It's almost inaudible amoung young people. It's like a comma within our speech.
Yes, some of us use "Dude" to start of a sentence, and we do, unfortunetly, say "hecka" and "hella". I try to avoid using those two.

Originally posted by NEWHART FAN


And yes people in Colorado have a twang. :lol:

Really? I never thought Coloradans had a twang. I know we have a subtle accent but when I hear the word twang I think of a southern accent, like Dolly Parton. :lol: But by twang you probably mean more of a "cowboy accent" as Eric put it. I don't think us Denverites have much of that "cowboy accent" Where do your relatives live? This is all very interesting to me because I never thought I had much of an accent.

I had a friend from Chicago who had a very subtle accent. You only noticed it when she said certain words. Another friend of mine goes to school in Minnesota and is picking up on the accent there. It is quite a bit more noticable.

I'm in the Midwest, so as was mentioned before, I don't think we have much of an accent. We do, however, pronounce certain words differently.

My mother says "wash" as "warsh", "color" as "collar". That's all I can think of.

My dad says "creek" as "crick".

I have all sorts of words that supposedly :rolleyes: I pronounce wrong. My boyfriend is from the East coast and he is always getting after me for pronouncing certain words wrong because he knows it really pushes my buttons when he does that! :D

I say "measure" as "maysure". With a long "a" sound. Apparently it's supposed to have a short "a" sound and be more like "me-sure"

I say "roof" as "ruf"

I know there's other words I pronounce "wrong". My bf says everyone here misprounces "orange" and "Florida". I don't know it it's wrong, but we do pronounce those 2 words very differently from East coasters.

Oh and Ags, that was one scary ass picture. It even scared me, showing something like that to Karli is seriously dangerous! ;)

Originally posted by Bootsy Whoosh
Oh and Ags, that was one scary ass picture. It even scared me, showing something like that to Karli is seriously dangerous! ;)


LOL (I'll tell you a secret...it scared me too :) )

I can verify the whole saying orange wrong and/or weird. I don't know how you pronounce it Bootsy, but my sister's roommate is from New York. The first time I met her my sister made her say the word orange and I must admit it was pretty funny. I can't even start to describe how she said it. But it's all in fun, she makes fun of my sister's and mine accents, so its cool. :)


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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Bootsy Whoosh
[B]I'm in the Midwest, so as was mentioned before, I don't think we have much of an accent. We do, however, pronounce certain words differently.

My mother says "wash" as "warsh", "color" as "collar". That's all I can think of.

My dad says "creek" as "crick".

I have all sorts of words that supposedly :rolleyes: I pronounce wrong. My boyfriend is from the East coast and he is always getting after me for pronouncing certain words wrong because he knows it really pushes my buttons when he does that! :D

I say "measure" as "maysure". With a long "a" sound. Apparently it's supposed to have a short "a" sound and be more like "me-sure"

I say "roof" as "ruf"

Ok Bootsy, are you from either Indiana or Ohio? Sure sounds like it to me!I will pick Indiana! Let me know if I am right?
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Originally posted by Bootsy Whoosh
showing something like that to Karli is seriously dangerous!

Yes... you best watch your back Dannielle

hehe j/k.. I would never do anythng to you. Unless you dressed up in a big scary "IT" costume and chased me down the street... Then you might want to watch your back

Originally posted by Lisa Whelchel Forever


Yes... you best watch your back Dannielle

hehe j/k.. I would never do anythng to you. Unless you dressed up in a big scary "IT" costume and chased me down the street... Then you might want to watch your back


If I ever lost my mind and did that Karli, all you would have to do is get a mirror. It would scare the chit out of me.


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Originally posted by Bootsy Whoosh
I'm in the Midwest, so as was mentioned before, I don't think we have much of an accent. We do, however, pronounce certain words differently.

My mother says "wash" as "warsh", "color" as "collar". That's all I can think of.

My dad says "creek" as "crick".

I have all sorts of words that supposedly :rolleyes: I pronounce wrong. My boyfriend is from the East coast and he is always getting after me for pronouncing certain words wrong because he knows it really pushes my buttons when he does that! :D

I say "measure" as "maysure". With a long "a" sound. Apparently it's supposed to have a short "a" sound and be more like "me-sure"

I say "roof" as "ruf"

I know there's other words I pronounce "wrong". My bf says everyone here misprounces "orange" and "Florida". I don't know it it's wrong, but we do pronounce those 2 words very differently from East coasters.

It sounds like you talk like my relatives in the Midwest do. Grr. LOL Do you say "bag" as "bayg"? How about the word "sorry"? Some of my relatives say it "sore-y". Argh...the bag thing annoys me... ;) I mean, bag has that same short a sound as cat, right? So would you call a cat a "kate"?? :lol: Ok, I'm done.

hmmmm....well i guess u cud call it slight valley girl around here. lol. i dont really have much of an accent...i talk reeally fast tho and tend to say 'like' too much...lol

Well I live in Southern California and like most of us don't have any accents, but almost all of us say "like" in every sentence. It's uncontrollable! lol! Oh, and me and my best friend talk in Brittish accents when we go places like Disney Land and stuff. It's really fun! And I have the best Brittish accent. hehe.

Originally posted by Blair-Lisa#1Fan
Oh, and me and my best friend talk in Brittish accents when we go places like Disney Land and stuff. It's really fun! And I have the best Brittish accent. hehe.

I've said it before and I shall say it again -
There is no such thing as a "British accent"!!
What you probably mean is you talk in a really posh English accent (which always sounds fake cos hardly anyone really talks like that).

Originally posted by Ags2000
If I ever lost my mind and did that Karli, all you would have to do is get a mirror. It would scare the chit out of me.


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I personally have a really canadian accent... luckily i'm not as bad as they make Minnesotans sound in the movie "Drop Dead Goregeous"... that's just too much of an accent for me!

And i say pole insteada pull and golfe insteada golf and stuff and and i say baig insteada bag :)

Originally posted by Jean Smart Forever

Actually, now that I'm watching my old tapes of DW, your not Julia. Julia sounds like a Yankee.


Uh-oh...I sure hope Ms. Sugarbaker herself doesn't hear you say that! :eek:

That's one thing I love about DW---the various southern accents. They're all southern, but a couple from different regions and dialect. If it comes to "Yankeeism", I'd say the closest would be Mary Jo.

But she can't truly be a Yankee. She wann't born in them thar Northern states, she's a southern gal. ;)

Byron

Originally posted by JDS84
Here in Kentucly everyone here talks like hicks. But I don't talk like a hick.

Not everyone does, but you sure do hear more than your fair share! lol

I myself have a country/southern accent, but don't overdo it so much that you'd think I'm a hick. I'm just a Kentucky guy, who would be proud to be the Sugarbaker's nephew. ;)

Byron

Originally posted by TallKyGuy


Uh-oh...I sure hope Ms. Sugarbaker herself doesn't hear you say that! :eek:

That's one thing I love about DW---the various southern accents. They're all southern, but a couple from different regions and dialect. If it comes to "Yankeeism", I'd say the closest would be Mary Jo.

But she can't truly be a Yankee. She wann't born in them thar Northern states, she's a southern gal. ;)

Byron


LOL :rotflmao: LOL

I was asked this week while I was in DC why I didn't have a strong Texas accent :) So I told them that I could turn it on and off so of course they all (the group from New York) wanted to here my accent. By the end of that night I had a new nic name. They were all calling me Texas lol (I think part of it was b/c most of them were drunk and couldn't remember my name, but ya know) :)


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Originally posted by TallKyGuy
That's one thing I love about DW---the various southern accents. They're all southern, but a couple from different regions and dialect. If it comes to "Yankeeism", I'd say the closest would be Mary Jo.

Actually wasn't Charlene a Yankee? Hell, I should know, look who I'm obsessed with!

Charlene? :eek: She can't be, that woman drips of southernness! lol Good ol' country southernness, that is...but maybe MO is one of those border states---some could consider it midwest, some southern (I think of it as both), and maybe some would think "Yankee" country. But I don't like to think of it that way. ;)

Nothin' against you Yanks! :D

Byron

Missouri is not a southern state. No way, no how.

MO is a Yankee state. I remember in one episode Suzanne referring to Charlene as a Yankee.

I live in North Alabama where the southern drawl is as thick as the gravy on the mashed potatoes. I also have one. Even though I was born in Italy.

Okay, okay! I've only been to MO once, sorry...lol ;)

I guess I thought it could be considered a border state since it's on the same "level" on the map as KY, and KY is a border state. My best friend thinks of himself as a Yankee, and I'm a southerner. lol I did live about 20 minutes south of him growin' up, so maybe that explains it. :D

Well, Charlene is sure country then, that's one thing for sure...

Byron

Heya,
Dannie, Justin, Whitney,and Brandon...

What kind of 'accent' do you think I have? lol.